A Liberal’s Lament

This headline is just stupid!

This is the most impressive article I have read this election season. Just what an average mom like me feels but is unable to articulate. I will read your magazine more often and seek out essays by this thought provoking author.

Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman have been a great disappointment. They lack depth and neutrality. I can barely watch them anymore, and now that Rachel Maddow is going to take over the 9:00 PM spot, it will be even more of the same thing. Please reconsider.

Sincerely,

Maureen D. Carlough
Fort Myers, FL

I think it accurately dis plays a man who has no back bone underneath all that high and mighty about the world singing kumbaya......he is basically in the end a wimp. a pushover I'm sure the Russians will agree with when he takes office. I wanna see one thing happen from "tawdry" man. When Russia invades ukraine or Poland, moldova when he takes office next year I would so like to see our messiah of a president in aactiacrionaction
action

Tawdry logic seems to be this writer's specialty. He describes as evasive Senator Obama's incredibly detailed discussion of Rezko with his home newspaper, condemns his refusal to make an utterly unnecessary snap judgment about the Georgia-Russia conflict rather than a more balanced statement followed by stronger condemnations, and makes a snap judgment about a man-Wright- he doesn't know.


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Obama President?
Please.
Shoeshine Boy Maybe.

Obama Presidentt ?
Please.
Shoeshine Boy Maybe

It is clear that republicans are not fit to govern! Their intellect is just too poor, and lets not talk about morals and ethics, they can't understand what these words mean.
WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!! OUT!!

Obama has quite a challenge. On one hand, on a stage in front of 70,000 people he's going to be expected to give a soaring oratorical performance, not al Al Gore-like lecture. On the other, it's crucial that he gives enough policy detail to convince a public increasingly worried about their pocketbooks that he's not all charisma and hot air. It'll be interesting to see how he tries to thread that needle.

my question is this: how many times has mccain been president? how is he any more ready than anyone else? does the fact that his answer to the georgian crisis bordered on calling for some sort of military reaction not worry anyone else? his knee-jerk reaction to every foreign crisis seems to be send in the troops! john mccain is a soldier. that does not automatically make him a good president!

Wilentz, this is ridiculous. Does McCain have "substance"? No, of course not. Does he have a health care plan? A tax plan? An energy plan? No, again and again. He has ideology scribbled on paper. His "foreign policy" could be described the same way ??? perhaps you remember the phrase "rogue state rollback"? His answers to all criticisms are biographical. Perhaps you've heard: he was a POW, which apparently means it doesn't matter that his health care 'plan' would lead to fewer Americans having worse insurance coverage. Another news flash: he has 'personal honor' which apparently means it doesn't matter that a President McCain would have led us into a shooting war with Russia a few weeks ago. And yet Obama is the one who has to answer these ridiculous claims?

I am a little surprised Newsweek is running a blatantly biased piece of reporting from a supposed Princeton professor, who has obviously not done his homework. Obama does not and never has shared the Carter campaign's willful distrust of Washington. Obama does denounce the government by imperialism, domestic and international, that Republicans have so effectively foisted on our country in their eight years of power. And Obama will work with congress on both sides of the aisle, as he started doing immediately upon his election to the Senate, to solve the many serious problems the American people are inheriting from the Republican administration. Obama actually is much closer to JFK in his native intelligence, pragmatic nature and above all, his proven ability to inspire.

Newsweek, who is this Sean guy? A relative of your editor? Why would you run an article so biased, not to mention wrong on the facts, during a time when journalistic integrity is even more essential. than usual, when our country is in real peril?

If any of you actually feel that Obama is closer to John Kennedy than Jimmy Carter in his politics, you all need to go back to junior high. Kennedy was a conservative Democrat; very centrist and moderate. To compare Obama to anyone except Carter is by no means a comparison but wishful thinking and blatant lack of knowledge of historical politics.

If any of you actually feel that Obama is closer to John Kennedy than Jimmy Carter in his politics, you all need to go back to junior high. Kennedy was a conservative Democrat; very centrist and moderate. To compare Obama to anyone except Carter is by no means a comparison but wishful thinking and a blatant lack of knowledge of historical politics.

One would think a Princeton professor would take the time to do his homework, but it's much easier to repeat Republican talking points bouncing in the media's echo chamber. Obama has laid out "where he'd take the country" in countless, detailed position papers, speeches and interviews. If you don't know where he stands, it's because you're either not paying attention or being wilfully ignorant.

If I had the guy as a professor, I'd ask Princeton for a refund on my $40,000 annual tuition.

Sean Wilentz: and John McCain offers a continuation of the same policies you spend one, small, paragraph noting that have damaged our country . Try putting McCain's policies under a microscope - gas tax holiday anyone? Belligerent sabre rattling over Georgia real effective? Running a smear and attack campaign: winning strategy to unite country and lifft morale of minorities?